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The Saturday before Christmas 1971, my grandparents worked like crazy making enough corned starch for hundreds of friends in East Oakland. Together they’d invented a secret cornmeal masa recipe to sell at their...

The moment Tiahleigh Palmer’s foster brother confessed to having sex with the 12-year-old, the Brisbane schoolgirl’s fate was sealed, a court has heard.
Trent Thorburn, 20, confessed to his mother in late October 2015...

Senior Democrats stunned Washington on Wednesday by claiming that they had agreed with Donald Trump on a plan to protect so-called Dreamers, young immigrants who were brought illegally to the US as children.
Senator...

Two completely unconnected events, the senseless viciousness in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough, and the fast of Master Tara Singh in the Golden Temple, Amritsar, have brought into the headlines the unobtrusive but sizeable community...

Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Thursday 14 September.
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The Turnbull government has secured the numbers to scrap longstanding controls on media ownership,...

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative MP and former attorney general, has called for an urgent side-deal on EU citizens’ rights post-Brexit to secure their future in the event Britain crashes out of the bloc...

Perched at the edge of Shanghai’s Kaixuan Road, between Tianshan Park’s leafy calm and the imposing weight of the elevated West Yan’an Road metro station, sits Yuyintang Livehouse, a mainstay of the city’s...

Roald Dahl originally wanted the eponymous hero of his much-loved children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black, his widow has said.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme...